Re: UART

Hi Lee,

lee wrote:

How does the UART know that the device connected to it is ready to
receive data?

It does not know anything about the connected device. The driver may
look at the handshake lines (DTR, RTS, CTS...) but thats not part of
the UART.

Regards, Kurt

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